Logic of Life is an initiative that unifies world-leading quantitative research in the life and life-inspired sciences in Switzerland with a bold aim: To identify the rules of life that drive emergence and self-organization at all biological scales, such as the appearance of variation, the formation of spatial patterns, the division of labour, and the creation of robustness. This will address one of the biggest missing links in our current understanding of life, namely how scales are connected. Knowing these rules will revolutionize the translation of biological findings into products, services, and treatments that benefit our society.

Logic of Life scientists are pioneers in developing technologies that can take multiplexed measurements across multiple length and time scales of interacting molecules, cells, tissues, and individuals, that can integrate these measurements using advanced computer vision methods, and that can analyse these measurements using graph theoretical approaches, mathematical modelling, and computer simulation. They create artificial ecosystems of interacting microbes, programmable precision materials to guide the self-organized growth of tissues from individual cells, and a new generation of ‘multicellular’ robots that form through the self-organized assembly of smaller units.